Differential Privacy

Differential Privacy at the U.S. Census

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Author: Simson Garfinkel, Kyle Polich; Publisher: Data Skeptic; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode features an interview with Simson Garfinkel who talks about his work with the U.S. Census and how they have changed the ways they are protecting data privacy for the 2020 Census. This new “Differential Privacy” method is more open to the public (with the code being published for anyone to look at) than previous…

What Responsibilities Does Facebook Have With Our Private Data?

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Author: Elisa Celis; Publisher: Data Science Ethics; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how Facebook is currently the largest social media platform and stores enormous amounts of data. Facebook has data from a user’s profile, their messages (public and private), who they interact with, what posts they like and news sources they read, and even how long they look at different ads. Although many believe…